among the command line parameters? It can likely produce in excess of 40,000 points per day, maybe above 50,000, though it depends on the Work Unit and how well the code takes advantage of all the available threads.

Looks like we are getting bursts of >100K every 2-3 days. We are already at 960K points for this month. The 1million target is becoming a joke now.

How about upping the ante to 2.5-3 million points (based on the fact that we are on track to do 1M at the end of the 15th, 2M would be too easy)? That would be a fun challenge?

I saw the first screenshots of v7 and have not been a fan since. Do they still keep the no nonsense command line version? I like that just fine. In fact when I switched my server to Frankie, I just stopped my WinSMP service, ran -configonly, restarted the service, and I was on my way. The longest part was actually copy and pasting Frankie's key from Dancin's PM to the Command Prompt window!

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fuzzhead wrote:I put an i7 bigadv on last weekend. That is the pop you see.I might put another one on this weekend.Stay tuned!

Fuzzhead

I enabled bigadv before but my 875K seemed to have received WUs that it cannot quite handle. Took 4+ days and according to FAH GPU Tracker I only got 2200ppd for that effort. So I turned off bigadv with regular SMP WUs and are now getting consistent ~8000ppd WUs. Do you really need the 2600K to make these bigadv WUs worthwhile nowadays, at least for WinSMP?

Hey Fuzzhead, so what target should we shoot for, 2.5M or 3M points (or more?) for the month?

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You need 8 cores. They can be 4 + hypertheads. 2600k or any i9xx on an x58motherboard. Depends on the overclock. Any i920 and up you should be able tooverclock to 4.0 easily with a good motherboard. Mine are all i9xx.

fuzzhead wrote:You need 8 cores. They can be 4 + hypertheads. 2600k or any i9xx on an x58motherboard. Depends on the overclock. Any i920 and up you should be able tooverclock to 4.0 easily with a good motherboard. Mine are all i9xx.

Re-read my post, I have an 875K, also 8 threads. For some reason I keep getting those really big 10K+ base point WUs but it took forever to finish, dragging down my ppd. Or it can be FAH GPU Tracker calculating it wrong.

Frankie just got into top 2 producer of TR just behind you!

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I tried enabling -bigadv again, got a P6900 WU worth 7164 points but it will take the full 4 days (plus an hour or 2) so no bonus, netting me "only" 1719ppd compared to regular SMP WUs where I will be in the 8000ppd range (confirmed with HFM.net as well). For the sake of science of course I am not going to delete the unit, but my CPU will be tied up for 4 days. My 875K should be no slouch how come it seems so slow with -bigadv?

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